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Author : sir John Graham Dalyell (6th bart.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590281833
Author : 6th Bart ) John Graham Dalyell (Sir
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019466987
Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea is a thrilling and fascinating book that chronicles the most exciting and dramatic moments in maritime history. Sir JG Dalyell provides an eyewitness account of the most famous sea disasters of his time, including the sinking of the HMS Titanic, the Andrea Doria, and the Brittany Ferry. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of seafaring and the incredible stories that have happened at sea. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Disasters
ISBN : BL:A0026692250
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017455683
Author : Sir John Graham Dalyell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Lifesaving
ISBN : BL:A0022120009
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Shipwrecks
ISBN : OCLC:266967001
Author : William Henry Giles Kingston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Castaways
ISBN : OXFORD:600023298
Author : Charles Dickens,Madeline House
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0198126174
This volume presents 1,592 letters, 668 of them previously unpublished, for the years 1850 to 1852. This was a time of great activity for Dickens, who completed the serial publication of David Copperfield, began work on Bleak House, successfully established the weekly Household Words (in which his own serial A Child's History of England appeared), and wrote about 100 articles and stories for the journal, including many uncollected pieces. In April 1851 he and Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton founded the Guild of Literature and Art, a scheme to help writers and artists. He also suffered a number of personal blows: the deaths of his father, his baby daughter Dora, and two of his close friends, Richard Watson and Alfred D'Orsay; there was also anxiety over the illness of his wife Catherine.
Author : Peter J Kitson,William Baker,Indira Ghose,Susan Schoenbauer Thurin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000558937
A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature served the interests of empire by promoting British political and economic values that translated into manufacturing goods.
Author : Amy Mitchell-Cook
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611173024
A Sea of Misadventures examines more than one hundred documented shipwreck narratives from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century as a means to understanding gender, status, and religion in the history of early America. Though it includes all the drama and intrigue afforded by maritime disasters, the book's significance lies in its investigation of how the trauma of shipwreck affected American values and behavior. Through stories of death and devastation, Amy Mitchell-Cook examines issues of hierarchy, race, and gender when the sphere of social action is shrunken to the dimensions of a lifeboat or deserted shore. Rather than debate the veracity of shipwreck tales, Mitchell-Cook provides a cultural and social analysis that places maritime disasters within the broader context of North American society. She answers questions that include who survived and why, how did gender or status affect survival rates, and how did survivors relate their stories to interested but unaffected audiences? Mitchell-Cook observes that, in creating a sense of order out of chaotic events, the narratives reassured audiences that anarchy did not rule the waves, even when desperate survivors resorted to cannibalism. Some of the accounts she studies are legal documents required by insurance companies, while others have been a form of prescriptive literature—guides that taught survivors how to act and be remembered with honor. In essence, shipwreck revealed some of the traits that defined what it meant to be Anglo-American. In an elaboration of some of the themes, Mitchell-Cook compares American narratives with Portuguese narratives to reveal the power of divergent cultural norms to shape so basic an event as a shipwreck.
Author : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 067453915X
Byron was a superb letter-writer: almost all his letters, whatever the subject or whoever the recipient, are enlivened by his wit, his irony, his honesty, and the sharpness of his observation of people. They provide a vivid self-portrait of the man who, of all his contemporaries, seems to express attitudes and feelings most in tune with the twentieth century. In addition, they offer a mirror of his own time. This first collected edition of all Byron's known letters supersedes Prothero's incomplete edition at the turn of the century. It includes a considerable number of hitherto unpublished letters and the complete text of many that were bowdlerized by former editors for a variety of reasons. Prothero's edition included 1,198 letters. This edition will have more than 3,000, over 80 percent of them transcribed entirely from the original manuscripts. Byron's epistolary saga continues con brio in this volume. At the start of 1818 he sends off the last canto of Childe Harold and abandons himself to the debaucheries of the Carnival in Venice. At the close of 1819 he resolves to return to England but instead follows Teresa Guiccioli to Ravenna. In the meantime he writes three long poems and two cantos of Don Juan, whose bowdlerization he violently protests; he breaks off with Marianna Segati, copes with his amorous "tigress" Margarita Cogni, then falls passionately in love with the young Countess Guiccioli; he thinks seriously of emigrating to South America; he takes custody of his little daughter Allegra and becomes increasingly fond of the child. The Shelleys visit him, as does Thomas Moore, to whom he entrusts his memoirs (burned after his death). The letters to friends are a marvelous outpouring of funny anecdotes, practical talk, discussions of his poems, statements of his beliefs. The love letters are in a class by themselves.
Author : Paul Spencer-Longhurst
Publisher : Third Millennium Information Ltd
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 190394225X
The catalogue The Sun Rising Through Vapour was published to accompany the Barber Institute's 2003/04 exhibition of the same name, and presents some of Turner's most luminous seascapes, painted during the early part of his career from 1795 to 1810.His first exhibited oil painting, Fisherman at Sea of 1796, was described at the time as masterly, and his early reputation was founded on a series of dramatic seapieces that he regularly showed at the Royal Academy, the British Institution and in his own gallery until about 1810. The artist even claimed to have lashed himself, Ulysses-like to the mast of a ship during a storm so that he could grasp the full force of the experience.
Author : George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674089480
Volume VIII opens with Byron in Ravenna, in 1821. His passion for the Countess Guiccioli is subsiding into playful fondness, and he confesses to his sister Augusta that he is not "so furiously in love as at first." Italy, meanwhile, is afire with the revolutionary activities of the Carbornari, which Byron sees as "the very poetry of politics."
Author : Philip W. Martin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1982-07-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521287669
This book is a major reappraisal of Byron's poetry, which despite his enormous influence, the poetry is often of inferior quality and so inconsistent in its attitudes that Byron's poetic seriousness is inevitably called into question. Dr Martin considers the nature of Byron's relationship with his public and its effect on his poetry.
Author : Tilar J. Mazzeo
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812202731
In a series of articles published in Tait's Magazine in 1834, Thomas DeQuincey catalogued four potential instances of plagiarism in the work of his friend and literary competitor Samuel Taylor Coleridge. DeQuincey's charges and the controversy they ignited have shaped readers' responses to the work of such writers as Coleridge, Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, and John Clare ever since. But what did plagiarism mean some two hundred years ago in Britain? What was at stake when early nineteenth-century authors levied such charges against each other? How would matters change if we were to evaluate these writers by the standards of their own national moment? And what does our moral investment in plagiarism tell us about ourselves and about our relationship to the Romantic myth of authorship? In Plagiarism and Literary Property in the Romantic Period, Tilar Mazzeo historicizes the discussion of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century plagiarism and demonstrates that it had little in common with our current understanding of the term. The book offers a major reassessment of the role of borrowing, textual appropriation, and narrative mastery in British Romantic literature and provides a new picture of the period and its central aesthetic contests. Above all, Mazzeo challenges the almost exclusive modern association of Romanticism with originality and takes a fresh look at some of the most familiar writings of the period and the controversies surrounding them.